Barcelona have been fined €25,000 and handed a suspended one-match ban on selling tickets to away fans for UEFA competitions for “racist behaviour” of supporters during the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Paris Saint-Germain.
Barcelona won the first leg in Paris 3-2 but lost the return leg 4-1 at Montjuic to be eliminated from the competition at the quarter-final stage.
On Thursday, the UEFA appeals body fined Barcelona on three separate counts of supporter conduct during the first leg in France; €25,000 for “racist behaviour”, €2,000 for the lighting of fireworks and €5,000 for acts of damage.
Alongside the fine for “racist behaviour”, UEFA have placed a suspended one-match ban on the club selling tickets to away fans for matches in European competitions for a probationary period of one year, starting from April 18.
Bayern Munich did not have any travelling fans for the away leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Arsenal after the German champions accepted UEFA sanctions for their fans’ use of pyrotechnics by their supporters in Rome when they faced Lazio in their last-16 tie last month.
The Munich side have received a ban because they were initially handed a suspended sentence by UEFA for the use of pyrotechnics during a match at FC Copenhagen in the group stage.
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